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Dedicated To The Progress Oi Served by Leased Wire of theWILMINGTON ASSOCIATED PRESSAnd Southeastern North With Complete Coverage ofCarolina Slate and National News^QlTt3—NO. 224 _WILMINGTON, N. C„ SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1940_ + + ESTABLISHED 1867^n ^ \ ^ a a aAddition T-f^iotel Planned$100,000 JobIs ConsideredBy Cape Fear!Plans Studied At Office OfConcern’s OwnershipIn New YorkWILL ADD 50 ROOMSActual Construction WorkIs Expected To Be Started On July FirstProposals to construct a $100,000addition to the Cape Fear hotelhere are now under considerationin the offices of the concern’s ownership in New York, it was announced yesterday.Sidney J. Rivenbark, manager,said he was unable to commentfurther on the plans at this time.It is expected, however, that actual construction work will beginabout July 1.Plans for the project were said tocontemplate an addition of approxivnatelv 50 rooms and baths. Thehotel originally contained 150 roomsand 35 rooms were added in 1937.With the contemplated addition,the hotel will be the largest in eastern North Carolina.Other improvements in the building, which was built and opened in1925, are also planned, it was said.EXPLOSIONS HEARDNEW YORK, May 17. — (2P> —Heavy explosions have been heardin Basle, Switzerland, said a Romebroadcast picked up by NBC tonight.The announcer said this led to thebelief that the French had blown upseveral bridges in France near thatpart of the Swiss border.i WEATHER |FORECASTNorth Carolina: Partly cloudy:warmer on the coast Saturday: Sundayconsiderable cloudiness, scattered showers in west portion.(Meteorological data for the 24 hoursmuling 7:30 p. m. yesterday).Temperature1:39 a. m. 66; 7:30 a. m. 64; 1:30 Pm. 77: 7:30 p. in. 71; maximum So:minimum 59: mean 70: normal 71.Humidity1:30 a. m. 94: 7:30 a. m. 58; 1:30 pm. 32 : 7:30 p. m. 47.PrecipitationTotal for 24 hours ending 7:30 p. m.0 00 inches; total since first of themonth 0.72 inch.Tides For Today(From Tide Tables published by TJ■ Coast and Geodetic Survey).High LowWilmington _ 6:49a 1:32a7 :27p 2:05p-'lasonboro Inlpt_4:34a 10:53ac . 5:18p ll:34psunrise 5:08a: sunset 7:08p; moonrise 4:00p; moon set 3:01a.WASHINGTON, May 17 — CP) -eatl.rr bureau records of temperature■n'l rainfall for the 24 hours ending 8)' ni-. in the principal cotton growing' rras and elspwhere *7,ati|m H'ph Low Free.•"Pena, clondv 51 42 0.00Asheville, clondv ... 74 42 O.Of■O anta, clondv . 81 53 0.01■Oiantir City, clear __ .. 00 53 1.32'■mnmghain, clondv _ 85 45 0.0(I'f'Ston. Cloudy _ 03 58 0.00""ffnlo. rain 49 42 0.0“Arlington, cloudy_ 53 49 1.03lucago. clear _52 4« O.Of-jnemnati. cloudy_ 75 45 0.00li.ii iln<T rain_ 52 42 0.00|allas. rain _ S3 70 0.12:• rw'"‘T- rain - «1 4(1 0.3?Dnlnln’ clondy _ 51 48 0.00ipiinth. clear - 57 34 0.00- aso. cloudy_ 80 59 O.Ofaneston. cloudy _SO 72 O.Of■Arl l:-l,n,"Iy _61 41 0.02Kansas n-?' clo"dy — RS fil 0MKcv "tv- . y- ra'11 - 61 53 0.52Kittle Pi Cloi,r _R4 72 °-nfTo, i?01?’ clol>6y_ 88 50 O.OfI-'iuiwiif es- cloudy — 68 57 O.OfiieAiihi'6, ,el"ndy -— 72 « 0.00Meridian cJ,°udy- 87 55 O.OfMian i ;,o ?"dy -no 52 °-orMinnUt P d,y - 85 74 O.OfMohile .1 i' Cloudy - 77 39 O.OfN"«- OrleanH"7,—J—- 85 fi2 0'0rNow vn,. s-, l',n"dy — 88 05 0.00Norfolk „i (:'0"6y -— 04 53 0.74,WtM„,rou< y - 72 54 0.4?Portland \t .rt°T]y — 50 41 O.OiPortland rV " cloudy - 58 . 50 0.52Riclimo 'd 0rr- oioudy SI * 55 O.Of^'S’ran " 48 "-01Siin Antnnln ,- <?1 51 °-4*"San Franr j,; cl°,ur1y - 87 65 0.17Tampa "ci''™- cloudy - 62 52 O.Oflickshiir., ,L,-,-R9 68 O.OfR'ashinsf'on ",,dy - 80 04 O.Of""iinin, ' o oudy .. 07 51 O.Of* "* cl,,,ldy - 80 59 0.00-r <- \> -- -TA Billion For DefensePhonephotoPresident Franklin L. Roosevelt addresses the joint session of congress to ask the sum of $1,181,000,000 for defense of the United Statesagainst European aggression. Vice President Garner is at right. ThePresident asked for the money to increase and modernize the armedmight of the country.N.C.DemocraticMeetingGives 26 Votes To F. D. R.GOV. HOEY IS PRAISED_Ramsey Lists AchievementsOf National And StateAdministrationsiBY \V. .JOYNES MACFARLAXRALEIGH, May 17.—UP)—North :Carolina democrats shouted theirpraise of President Roosevelt andGovernor Hoey today and instructedthat the governor and other delegates to the national convention castthe state’s 26 votes for a third termfor the President.There was no audible oppositionto the resolution instructing that thestate’s entire vote be cast f0r Mr.Roosevelt “if, and when, his nameis presented to the national convention’’ and on every ballot “until heis nominated or until his name Iswithdrawn.” Earlier a number ofthe congressional district conventions had voted Roosevelt instruc- -tions.Harmony PrevailsHarmony prevailed from start tofinish. There wasn’t a record vote ■>on anything. Dr. Ralph McDonald tof Forsyth, who engaged in a bitter sgubernatorial fight with Governor vHoey four years ago, illustrated the cgood will when he seconded nomina- ttions for delegates-at-large to the snational convention and said:“I urge you to vote for this dele- 1gation, for the head of the delegation ^(Continued on Page Five; Col. 4) oDerelict Schooner IsSighted On West CoastSAN DIEGO, Calif., May 17.—I/Pi—-A derelict two-mastedschooner, with no signs of lifeaboard, was sighted 25 milesto the south today. The coastguard began an immediate investigation.Information received at thecoast guard air base said thevessel was sighted about 3 p.m about 10 miles off the Mexican coast.The hull was reported awash.A check of local yacht clubsfailed to reveal any missingschooner, or one overdue. However, there is a 34-foot ketchreported as overdue from theCanal Zone—the Idle Hour— inwhich Dwight Long is windingup a voyage around the world.With him when he left theCanal Zone were John S. NorthPittsburgh manufacturer, andDouglas Grlil, of Philadelphia.REFUSED VISASBERLIN, May 17—<A>)—Germanews holding emigration visas forae United States and other overeas points were refused transitisas by Italy beginning today. Inuirers were told that in view ofneertainty of the internationalituation and the possibility oftaly’s entry into the war, it wasot desirable to have emigrants oner hands for whom no overseasransportation might be availablenee Italy is a belligerent.Brand, PerrinRetire FromACL June 30Retirement Of Two Officials At Own Request IsAnnounced By DavisHAVE LONG RECORDSBrand Started His CareerIn 1889 And Perrin Began Work In 1891The retirement from active service of J. N. Brand, assistant vicepresident, and J. W. Perrin, freighttraffic manager, both at their request, was announced last night byC. McD. Davis, executive vice president of the Atlantic Coast LineRailroad company.Both will become effective as otJune 30. No announcement wasmade as to their successors.Brand has served the railroad foimore than 50 years and Perrin aslightly shorter time.Official notices of the retiremt/ftshave been distributed in the railroad's offices.James Neveland Brand, born inClarendon county, S. C.. on December 16, 1871, entered the employ ofthe Charleston, Sumter and Northern railroad, predecessor to the A.C. L., as a telegraph operator in1889.He was then promoted in orderto chief clerk to general manager,train dispatcher and train master,chief clerk to superintendent oft-ansportation, assistant superintendent of transportation, generalmanager, and was appointed assistant vice-president on October13. 1936.He was married in 1900 and hastwo children, James Neveland, Jr.,and Herbert Borden.He now resides at 1603 Chestnutstreet.J. W. Perrin, born in Abbesville,3. C., on March 22, 1869, enteredthe employ of the road's predecessors in 1891 as chief rate clerk, being promoted as follows: chief clerk,assistant general freight agent,general freight agent, assistantfreight traffic manager and is nowfreight traffic manager.He now resides at 1615 Market- treet.Duplin Leaders AttendDemonstration MeetingKENANSVILLE, May 17.—Therecreational leaders training school:'or the southeastern district of NorthCarolina was held May 13, 14, 15,and 16, at the Bladen county 4-Hcamp at White Lake. About GO recreational leaders attended.Among those attending from Duplin county were: Miss Hattie PearlMallard, home demonstration agent;Lacey F. Weeks, assistant countyfarm agent; Mrs. Phoebe Pate, ofthe Beulaville home demonstrationclub; and Miss Ruth Chase Honeycutt, of the Duplin service club.ODUM TO SPEAKRALEIGH, May 17. — (A>> — Dr.Howard W. Odum of Chapel Hill willspeak here tomorrow at the firsttnnual livestock day program of students in the agriculture school atN. C- State college.Outlay Of $1,694,877,724 On ArmyApproved By Senate SubcommitteeWASHINGTON, May 17—</P)—Increasing: President Roosevelt’s extraordinary defenseprogram by $50,000,000, a senate subcommittee tonight approved a $1,694,877 outlay on theUnited States army in the nextfiscal year—an expenditure thatwould shatter all peace-timerecords.Chairman Thomas (D-Okla.)said the committee decided tomake funds available so that afully equipped force of 280,000men, about 25,000 more thanthe President had suggested,could be put in the field.There was no doubt that thesmashing progress of Germanarms in Belgium had spurredthe senators not only to approveMr. Roosevelt’s program, butadd to it. The committee actedafter a session with GeneralGeorge C. Marshall, army chiefof staff.The senators, working with anarmy appropriation bill of $784,999,094, previously approved bythe house, almost doubled it byadding $674,648,994 to it. Firstthey added $545,770,364 in newfunds asked by the Presidentyesterday, then tacked on $50,000,000 for army personnel.Moreover, they inserted morethan $51,000,000 in items whichhad been approved by the budget bureau last January but hadbeen denied by the house. Theseitems included $35,415,069 forthe signal corps, ordinance,transportation, etc.(Continued on Page Five: Col. 2)REICH’S FORCES DRIVE DEEPINTO FRANCE ON WIDE FRONT;ALLIES BA TTLE TANK A TTA CK- *__ __* -KING LEOPOLD FLEESGamelin Declares Fate OfFrance Depends On BigBattle Under WayFIGHT ON TRIANGLEI FRANCEPARIS, May 17—(AP) —The French armies, under orders from GeneralissimoMaurice Gustave Gamelin to“die on the spot rather thangive further ground,” battleda massive German tank driveinto northern France tonightin a clash described by thehigh command as “a veritable melee.”Adolf Hitler’s gray-greenfighters carried their weekold offensive on the westernfront to a peak during theday with violent blasts bothin Belgium and France in adesperate effort to drivehome a decisive victory.King Leopold FleesThe German thrust through| Belgium struck straight at[ Brussels, from which KingLeopold’s government fled toOstend, on the North sea.(The German high command announced its troopsentered Brussels at nightfallafter breaking through Belgian and Allied lines defendthe Belgian capital.)The drive into France wasdirected through a pocketcarved out of the battle-scarred northern plains.“The fate of the fatherland, that of our Allies andthe destiny of the world depends on the battle incourse,” General Gamelin,commander-in-chief of theAllied forces, said in an orderof the day.“English, Belgian and Polish soldiers and foreign volunteers are fighting at oursides. British aviation is engaged to the full like ours.“Any soldier who can not(Continued on Page Three)1935 ARMY CLASSCALLED BY GREECEMen Called For Month’s ;Training in The Use ’Of New Weapons’- ;ATHENS, Greece, May 18.—(Sat- ■,urday)—(iP>—The war ministry early ,today called to the colors the 1935 imilitary class.The class, composed of men 26 'years old, will report May 25.It was announced officially thatthe class, reported to number 60,000, ■was called for a month's training "inthe use of new weapons.”Informed military observers saidmost of the class would be sent tothe border of Italian "protected” Albania to swell the already large number of Greek troops manning fortifications facing Italian forces on theother side.Simultaneously, Premier-DictatorJohn Metaxas held long conferenceswith the Yugoslav and Rumanianambassadors- Aleksandar Vukcevic,the Yugoslav envoy, sounded outMetaxas last Tuesday on what assistance Yugoslavia could expectfrom Greece in the event of an Italian attack.Rumania, like Yugoslavia, is an ally of Greece and Turkey in the Balkan entente.Where Armies ClashI. ' " ..From Antwerp southward, following line of the Meuse, Germansand Allies lock grips in a crucial battle. Black arrows represent nazithrusts. A split German column out of Maastricht sent its northernfork against Louvain, which was reduced to- ruins. Gembioux is reported hard hit by a big tank battle. Nazis claim to have crossed theMeuse at three points between Namur and Sedan, and to have brokentha Maginot Line below Sedan (wedge). Column east of Metz is nowmaking a frontal attack on the Maginot Lice (checked section).British rorces WithdrawFrom Capital Of Belgium- -Dutch And French ForcesAbandon Two VitalNetherlands IslandsBRITAIN |By EDWIN STOUTLONDON, May 17.—(/P)—British.roops withdrew tonight to thevest of Brussels, occupation ofvhich was announced by the Gernans, while Dutch and Frenchorces abandoned the Netherlandsstands of Beveland and Walch;ren, among the last of the Dutchronts of resistance to the Nazinvaders.Disclosure of the withdrawalrom Brussels was made in a briefIritish war office communique folowing an appeal by an officialsource to Britons to keep “stoutlearts and cool heads” in the face>f German successes in Belgiumind the deeper drive into northernFrance.Islands BombedAbandonment of the Dutch isands in Zeeland province was deeded upon after heavy bombardnent by German planes and arillery, it was reported here.King George VI, keeping closey in touch with the great battle in■'ranee and Belgium, studied mapsit the war office and later receiv:d Prime Minister WinstonIhurchill at Buckingham palace.The war office declared therevas “no question of a collapse or>reak-through” in the Brussels sec(Contiiiued on Page Three)American RepublicsProtest Nazi DrivesMONTEVIDEO, March 17.—(fP)—All. 21 American republicstonight approved a joint declaration protesting German invasionsof neutral countries.The declaration, drafted byUruguay, was approved afterChile and Nicaragua communicated unreserved approvals.Consequently, the Panama government informed Uruguay thetext of the declaration wouldbe releasde at Panama tomorrowafternoon.JOSEPH SALLINGSUCCUMBS HEREDeputy Sheriff Dies In Hospital After SufferingHeart AttackJoseph A. Sailing, 52, of 611 Southrhird street, a deputy sheriff in theoffice of Sheriff C. David Jones,died at James Walker Memorialhospital yesterday afternoon at 6o'clock following a short illness.He was stricken about a week agowith a heart attack.Funeral services will be heldfrom the late residence Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock, with theKev. F. S. Johnston, pastor of Em(Continued on Page Three)Fresh Reports IndicateAllied Front TotteringBy KIRKE L. SIMPSON(Associated Press Writer)An ominous admission in Londonhat Allied forces are falling backit undisclosed points all along the:attle line from Antwerp to Seian lends color to German claimsjf complete victory in Flanders inhe first clash with the Franco-Britsh foe.Whether admitted Allied withdrawals mean impending evacua:ion of all Belgian, or a more limited correction of the front to averti German flanking attack northwest from the Sambre river line,remains to be seen. There can beno question, however, that thewhole Allied front in Belgium froma point on the Franco-Belgian border near Maubeuge to Antwerp andthe sea is tottering.Delaying ActionIn the face of the bulge driven into French lines from the Maubeuge region to a point on theMeuse river, Carignan, southeastof Sedan. Allied tenure of the front(Continued on Page Five; Col. 1)ALLIES FORCED BACKOne Report Says GermansHave Moved Within 76Miles Of ParisBEAT RECORD OF 1914GERMANY|-—BERLIN, May 17—(AF) —Germany’s power in twogreat thrusts smashed intoBrussels tonight as Allied resistance melted through thecenter of Belgium, and to thesouth drove “deep in northern France” along a 65-milefront aimed toward Paris.One report, without officialverification and lacking details, said the German driveinto northern France betweenMaubeuge and Montmedyhad carried to within 76miles of Paris.The high command announced German troopsmarched into the Belgiancapital after sweepingthrough Louvain, 16 miles tothe east, and Mecheln (Malines), 14 miles northeast.Beat Kaiser’s RecordMarking the speed of AdolfHitler’s blitzkrieg, Brusselswas entered in the eighth dayof the current campaignwhereas Kaiser Wilhelm’stroops in 1914 goose-steppedinto the city on the 17th dayof their invasion.The whirlwind drive alsobrought German troopspounding at the outer fortifications of Antwerp, 28miles north of Brussels,while to the south of thecapital they were reported tohave pierced the Dyle riverposition between Brussels andNamur.South and west from theNamur region, the Germanadvance on French soil pushed through sections of theLittle Maginot Line, wherethat defense system has beenextended along the BelgianFrench frontier, the highicommand report ed, andbrought claims that naziforces had punctured themain French defenses.Head For CoastDienst Aus Deutschland, authoritative commentary service, said the| (Continued on Page Three)NOTICETO SUBSCRIBERSIf YouFail To ReceiveYourSunday Paper’Phone 2800Star-NewsCirculation Dept.Before 10 A. 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